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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

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In San Francisco, sometimes one can feel a bit cynical about the influx of frivolous technology with billion dollar valuations. Did you know that San Francisco renters are seven times more likely to get buyout offers than eviction notices? No Place Like Home. The project was created by the St.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

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San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I learned this technique from Cheryl Francisconi, director of the IIE Addis-Ababa Office in Ethiopia, last month in Rwanda ,who uses a stone that has been held by many people. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Heather Carpenter: Nonprofit Operations Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Heather Carpenter is the Assistant Director of Aspiration which connects nonprofits organizations with software solutions that help better carry out their work. One of the first things that I did was to find a new office space for Aspiration which we now call the San Francisco Technology Center. Why did you start to blog?

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

Anisha Desai is the Executive Director of the Women of Color Resource Center. Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. Then, I moved into the world of teaching.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program. So that's when I started working here more formally, and then this last fall I ended up coming to Ella Baker Center full time as the Art and Media Director of Reclaim the Future.

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